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      Perhaps even more telling are the conversations Satan has with himself.  Modern thinkers rightfully consider of great importance the times when man speaks to parts of his own

2. Look back over the speech and find a line that is filled with ethos. Write it down. What does this fact show us about Jobs?

However, craving independence from God ferociously backfires on Satan when he finds out that even after leaving hell, he cannot escape it, “which way [he] [flies] is Hell, [he] [himself] is Hell,” (IV, 75). Satan finds his way to revolt against and separate from God to overrule Heaven and become king, instead however, he takes on the role of the representation of all evil which is evidently seen in his interactions with Eve.

     Job is a man very limited by God. As illustrated, he has only a negligible amount of agency to begin with. By the time God and Satan finish with him, he has virtually no control over his own life. The fragment of agency he does cling to is his ability to choose whether or not to curse God. No one, except himself, could prevent Job from cursing God. Yet, he refuses to curse God, even though He is responsible for his suffering.

“O Hell!” Satan’s opening exclamation of frustration immediately alerts readers to Satan’s state of mind. As Satan gazes on Adam and Eve, he is struck by their blissful state, which sends him into a spiral of confusion as he slightly reconsiders his plan to destroy them. To himself, Satan addresses the pair; he begins regretful and with pity for Adam and Eve. He later shifts in tone to vengeful, envious, and angry. Further exemplifying Satan’s contrasting attitudes, Milton uses antonymous words of emotion throughout the passage. By the end of passage, Milton solidifies Satan’s hardening of heart and ends the struggle that has been festering inside Satan since his first act of rebellion against God. Milton successfully uses both the shift in tone and the emotional diction to reveal Satan’s stormy internal conflict.

how groovy it is to be Satan. Never has it been sung in a more appropriate setting.” The

For example, Satan compares humans to sheep, and says that they mostly follow others and tend to follow the aggressive and pitiless minority, afraid to assert themselves. Man’s Moral Sense leads him to follow others since he has the preconceived notion that if everyone does it, then it must be the right thing to do. He explains that Man alone is “kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.” He says that we go to war for no apparent reason and “it is unjust and dishonorable, as there is no necessity for it”, but Moral Sense drives us to it. Satan exclaims that “Man is to me as a red spider is to an elephant”.

He started out by tricking Eve when he told her “You will be like God”, wanting Eve to think God was being selfish. When God said “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you must surely die”, he was warning Adam and Eve (Life Application Study Bible New International Version, Genesis 2:16-17). Then when Satan said to Eve, “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, he was trying to convince her to eat from the tree (Life Application Study Bible New International Version, Genesis 3:5). Satan had tempted Eve when he said, “You will be like God”; which becoming like God wasn’t a bad thing to Eve.

4) Summarize the key points of Chapters 3, 4, & 5 (McHale). What did you learn that you will use as an employee and/or as an employer?

Satan’s inability to comply with God’s law and ideals cast him out of Heaven and into the depths of Hell. Dismissing his eternal damnation in Hell as a mere setback in his ambition to reject God’s authority and rule over Hell, Satan remains convinced he can subdue the omnipotent.

Secondly, Satan had the attitude of hatred. This is shown when he said, “farthest from Him is best.” This displays that Satan does not want to be anywhere God is which is why God created hell, as a place where Satan can dwell without God’s presence. Another time hatred was shown was when Satan said, “ever to do ill our sole delight.” This paints a picture that Satan hates people so much that the only way he is happy was when people suffer.

Satan again reverses roles, portraying himself as good and God as evil. Many people fall for this lie. For example, many see Satan as noble liberator in the garden of Eden but judge God as a stingy jailer – instead of seeing God as providing an idyllic environment, while selfish man just had to have one more tree despite the abundant orchards! Man, imitating Satan, said "I will be like God" and rebelled against his benevolent Creator – a Creator Who in turn humbly took the form of a man to be crucified for the willful sins of His own creation so that a way of redemption could be open to all by simply trusting the Rescuer. To regard someone as 'evil' that dies on your behalf is the height of deception.

          Satan introspects in the first soliloquy (lines 32-113), searching for the motivation and reasoning behind his fall. He

Satan’s definitions include the advocate of God, a personification of evil, the fallen angel, a spirit created by God, and also the accuser. People see Satan differently, some know of his existence, others think of him as just a myth, and there are those that just ignore him. John Milton's Paradise Lost tells of Satan's banishment from Heaven and his gain of earth. He and his brigade have plotted war against God and are now doomed to billow in the fiery pits of hell. Satan is a complex character with many different qualities. God is a character who we, as Christians, know about but do not completely understand. We also do not completely understand Satan. Some may think they know Satan but when asked “Is Satan divine?”

If you look back at that verse in Helaman it says, "When the devil shall send forth his mighty winds." Not if he may, or it might happen every now and then. It says WHEN. This means that it is going to happen and that the fact that you are built upon Christ doesn 't make you impervious to bad things happening in your life. In fact I would say when you are doing good that 's when satan wants to attack you even more!